Thread: Call your local Walmart, tell them "English only"

AmericanElizabeth Wrote:

While here in my town, they have been trying for over two years to build a second Walmart (this town has a population of under 100,000), and the people of this city have all said NO and the proposed store would be in a location truly inappropriate for it, size-wise and also for traffic, it would be placed in spot right where there is a major, busy intersection.

That`s one think too many people don`t know about in their own town or community.
Every community has a "General Plan" and an "Agriculture Overlay Plan", created by the people of the community which states what can or cannot be accepted and what changes will or will not be made to the community within the next 20 years.
I was with the communities "Advisory Meeting Commmittee" and helped write our "General Plan" and Layout.
A new freeway has just gone up (not even open yet) just out side our community.
Some guy dicided that he was going to buy some land and put up a store.
He got as far as building the walls (no roof) and he was voted out of the community. The shell of the store still stands.
Communities big and small have power and some of people don`t even know it.

Here in Oregon, we have all too many enviromentalists who work with state and county agenices and they make these decisions to change the zoning of someone property, then this keeps people from using it as they had originally intended to. So we voted on "Measure 37" which would make the state reimburse those people who's land use/zoning was changed. Now the state is trying to change what we just voted on.

Oregon has gotten really bad about this, change zoning, making restrictions, they'll even go as far as telling you you cannot cut down trees on your property!

Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth

Funny Coto. Seems lately that Walmart has been trying to do some PR stuff in the media lately. They have been speaking out about how much they have been "picked" on (boohooo.....).

While here in my town, they have been trying for over two years to build a second Walmart (this town has a population of under 100,000), and the people of this city have all said NO and the proposed store would be in a location truly inappropriate for it, size-wise and also for traffic, it would be placed in spot right where there is a major, busy intersection.

The city keeps saying no and telling them why, but they keep bugging the city, asking for hearings, asking for extension of their proposals, etc... they simply do not want to take no for an answer. This does say a lot about their comany, and from the news nationwide, they do this wherever they get their sites set on building.

Same happened in College Station, Texas but I don't know that they are pestering anyone at the moment.

americanElizabeth wrote:

Oregon has gotten really bad about this, change zoning, making restrictions, they'll even go as far as telling you you cannot cut down trees on your property!

California`s the same way, they change the zoning to what ever the new Developers want.